Russian Samovar

October 6, 2018Comments Off on Russian Samovar

Each of us probably at least once in his life he drank tea from a samovar. Naturally, in most cases, this was an electric samovar. At one time, or rather in the mid twentieth century, all samovars worked only on the basis of heat, obtained by combustion. The main fuel was coal and firewood. In general, its structure samovar was conceived just as a kitchen utensil for heating water. The structure of the samovar provides for a special compartment in the which provides a fuel, and flue. For this reason, we are well-known coal samovar samovar and for firewood.

Their use is clouded by one essential fact – the use of a samovar could be largely outside the house, ie, on the street, in the wall, etc. Basically, so did tea ceremony staged after the water warms up in the samovar. In the twentieth century a more convenient fuel – electricity. Now, the samovar was already possible to use Even in a city apartment. Naturally, the new device was different in appearance from ordinary samovar, as the heating element is considerably simplified its structure. However, in order to preserve the beauty of the Russian Samovar, many manufacturers repeat the form of the samovar, which are used by our ancestors. Because of this we are able to drink tea from a samovar, which could be called antique, if they were truly out of the last century. But, true aesthetes tea manage to buy an antique samovar, melt in it the wood, and drink this tea samovar